Rant then I'll shut up.

[Tor Larson]

Okay.

Why does the History Channel, Military Channel, movies, books, documentaries, and museums ALWAY call the 9mm German MP40 machine pistol a "SCHMEISSER"? Can't historians get something as simple as that right?

Just watching a 30 minute long show on the Military Channel specifically about machine guns and what do they do over and over again? They call the MP40 a Schmeisser. Even the Brit soldier interviewed on the show who was hit by one called it wrong. Damnit!

I've shot a few MP40s over the years and even a real Schmeisser, the MP18. No similarities at all. Way different look, operation, etc. Just a damn mistake that continually gets made over and over again.

Done ranting. Feel much better now. Now back to the economy, OBL, Global Warming, and the fact that I am out of Newcastle Brown Ale.

[Guylee]

I hate when people double post threads.

I keed I keed.






















But seriously...

[Irving]

I've never heard it called that.

[patrick0685]

...and the fact that I am out of Newcastle Brown Ale.

I think this is the scariest part of the Rant...

[Hoosier]

]Newcastle Brown Ale.

My favorite

[Zundfolge]

Well at least Hoosier has good taste in beer.

[CrufflerSteve]

Do you get upset when people call a Model 1917 rifle a P17? The history channel might have educated fact checkers who get it right but then they change it to sound better on air. "SCHMEISSER is so much more fun to say then "9mm German MP40 machine pistol". German just makes weapons sound so much cooler.

Say it now, "Sturmgewehr, Sturmgewehr, Sturmgewehr".

Steve

[mc223]

"SCHMEISSER" Translates to "throw" Now how exciting is that????????

[ChunkyMonkey]

MP40 has been called Schmeisser for decades.. as much as the Russian called most western anti tank, 'Bazooka', The chinese called m60, Rambo, and I called the liberals libtards!